Mold for baking rolls.



K. STIGA.

MOLD FOR BAKING ,8. APPLICATION mzo FEB. 916.

v A I M Patented July F4, 1917.

KOLOMAN STIGA, OF NEVT YORK, N. Y.

MOLD FOR BAKING ROLLS.

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To all whom it may concern Be it-.known that I, KoLoMAN STIGA', asubject of the King of Hungary, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Molds for Baking Rolls, of which the following is a specifica' tion.

This invention relates to improvements in a device for baking with special reference to that type of bread known as rolls, in which the dough is formed into relatively thin circular shape, creased at the top prior to baking, such rolls at the present tune being made by hand processes.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a form of pan or container in which the lumps of dough are placed and which will give to them the shape desired with greater accuracy and rapidity than can be attained by the processes commonly employed.

Another object is to provide such devices in forms which are readily handled both in the reception of the dough in the entrance and removal from the ovens, and in removing the baked rolls therefrom.

, These and other similar objects are at-. tained by the novel construction of parts hereafter described and shownin the accompanying drawing forming -a material part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view showing the device extended in position to receive the ough. I

Flg. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view, showing one of'the baking cornpartments and clamping means employed, and

Fig. 4: is a perspective viewshowing the I product obtained byithe device.

The device consists principally of 'two substantially rectangular plates, numbered respectively 10 and 11 on the adjacent edges of which are formed hinge elements 12 and 13 near each end and connected by a rod 14- which passes from end to end of the plates, the same being held therein by upsetting or riveting the ends as indicated.

The interengaging lugs 12 and 13 are so arranged as to prevent longitudinal move ment ofthe plates so that when close together, the several openings containing the.

rolls will be in register.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patgnted July 24 i 191"?- Application filed February 26, 1916. Serial No. 80,649.

tion by means of the nuts and bolts in an obvious manner.

Formed in the plate 10 are a plurality of concave depressions 25 substantially circular in outline and having curved interior walls adjoining the bottom which may be made preferably flat, as shown best in Fig.3.

In the other plate 11 are corresponding cavities 30, in which are partial partitions 31, the same having an acutely formed edge curved on both sides to the general contourso that the completed product will be similar in appearance to that of the hand made article as indicated in Fig. 4.

It is to be noticed that the thickness of the walls of both plates are substantially uniform, so that the rolls may be heated uniformly in the process of baking, and that, whatever expansion or contraction may occur maybe uniform throughout.

In operation, the dough is divided into lumps of uniform size and deposited into the cavities 25 whereupon the plates are close together, secured by the clamping means and the whole device is again ready for further operations.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In an apparatus for baking dough into solid rolls, the combination with a pair of cooperating plate sections and means for holding them in operative position, of a plurality of spaced--apart cavities formed in the inner face of one section, each cavity being substantially circular in outline and having curved interior walls prolonged into a flat bottom, and a corresponding plurality of spaced apart cavities formed in the confronting face of the other section, each converging divisional lines.

2. In an apparatus for baking dough into solid rolls, the combination with a pair of rectangular complementary plate sections hinged together" at one and, of spaced apart cavities fformezi in the bottom member of sold sectlons, eaoh cavlty being substantmlly c1rou1ar 1n outhne Wlth curved 'mtenor longed outstanding point in the center thereof to give the top of the roll centrally converging divisional linias, means for causing said sections to register positively when brought into intimate contact the, walls of the complementary sections bemg all of substantially uniform thickness.

In. testimony whereof I have signed my name .to this specification.

v KOLOMAN STIGA. 

